End of Eight Month Steel Dispute Reached in Washington
Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell announced that the United Steelworkers Union and the steel industry voluntarily accepted terms recommended by Mitchell and Vice President Nixon, ending an eight month dispute after a 22 hour negotiating session at the Sheraton-Carlton. President McDonald of the NSW and industry negotiator R. Conrad Cooper described the settlement as a compromise and noted pending ratification. The Taft Hartley injunction would expire on January 26, and officials emphasized improved cooperation to boost efficiency and reduce costs.
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Washington
James P. Mitchell
United Steelworkers Union
Richard M. Nixon
Sheraton-Carlton
Mitchell
David J. McDonald
Nsw
R. Conrad Cooper
Nixon
Eisenhower
McDonald
Cooper
Steelworkers
Big 11
Steel
Covey files for Raleigh County judge seat
H Dale Covey a former Raleigh County Board of Education member filed a certificate of candidacy for county court in the Democratic primary May 10. A Glen Daniel lifelong resident born April 1 1916 Covey resigned from the school board in 1959 amid a litigation dispute over his right to hold a seat. He owns a Glen Daniel general store and is active in local church and Red Cross affairs.
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Raleigh
Leeber
Glen Daniel
Fred
Sadie Trump Covey
Margaret M. Smith
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
First Christian Church
Raleigh County
American Red Cross
Covey
Trap, Hill High School
Beckley College
Baltimore
Deaths in Newport Beach and Columbus Officials
Arthur Weems, 56, vice president and general manager of General Artists Corp., died Saturday of a heart attack after recent transfer to Los Angeles from New York. Calvin Clarke, 66, Portsmouth, Ohio businessman and former Selby Shoe Co. board chairman, died Sunday from a heart condition.
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Newport Beach
Calif
Arthur Weems
General Artists Corp
Los Angeles
New York
Columbus, Ohio
Calvin Clarke
Portsmouth
Ohio
Selby Shoe Co
West Virginia Weather Forecast Note Flurries Northern Mountains
Mostly cloudy and cold with light snow flurries in northern mountains and a high near 30s. Clearing tonight with low around 20. Extended outlook shows temperatures about four degrees below normals, with a sequence of cold days and slight warm up midweek. Beckley gauge 3.1 ft. no skiing or skating today.
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W. Va
Beckley Gates
Head on Turnpike crash fragments two Cleveland families
A two car head on collision near Beckley West Virginia Turnpike involved twelve Cleveland residents returning from a Princeton funeral. Driver Tommy Smith reversed onto the exit at high speed, struck heavier gravel, swung and hit Olestrous Mayberry driving a 1957 car. Smith bruised. Mayberry and several passengers treated for cuts and bruises. Damages to vehicles estimated at 750 dollars. Smith charged with hazardous driving. paid 10 dollar fine and costs.
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Beckley
West Virginia Turnpike
Princeton
Cleveland
Ohio
Tommy Smith
Olestrous Mayberry
Smith
Mayberry
Raleigh General Hospital
Jessie Webb
Lesteen Mayberry
Beckley Hospi
Tal
Minnie Smith
Juanita Smith
Ruth Anne Hendricks
Alice Ware
Clarence Ware
Willie Smith
Anne Smith
Patricia Smith
Cotton White
Jewel Thieves Hit In Beckley
Dr Brigitta Al Dassler’s Beckley home was burglarized Sunday between 2 30 p m and 5 p m with at least 1000 dollars worth of jewelry taken. Entry was gained by breaking a basement glass pane and unlocking the door from inside. Missing items include a Bucherer Swiss ladies watch two gold rings a gold necklace with cross and other gold pieces plus numerous silver and pearl earrings and costume jewelry sets. Beckley State Police are investigating.
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Brigitta al Dassler
Beckley State
Dassler
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Germany
Round The Clock Bargaining Brings Steel Wage Settlement
Washington AP reports Steel workers Union President David J. McDonald ended the news conference with a joke about placing a Big Ben on the floor to symbolize around the clock bargaining. The room did not laugh as reporters rushed for details.
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Washington
David J. McDonald
Traffic Toll Sets Record During New Year Holiday
Traffic fatalities rose to 366 across a three day New Year period, surpassing the previous record and signaling a nationwide surge in deaths from highway crashes. Michigan led with 30 plus deaths, with heavy tolls in Texas Florida New York and California.
Ex-Convict Admits Quadruple Slaying
LAS VEGAS AP ex convict Richard Hickock admits that he and Perry Smith killed the Clutter family in Kansas last November 15. Hickock signed and tape recorded his confession, naming Smith as a co perpetrator. The Clutters were found bound gagged and shot in their home. the son wore jeans and a T shirt while the others wore pajamas.
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Nev
Richard Eugene Hickock
Clutter
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Hickock
Iagerton, Kan
Perry Edward Smith
Herbert Clutter
Bonnie
Nancy Mae
Kenyon
Garden City
Kan
Smith
Kansas
KBI
West Virginia tops early year with low traffic deaths
The Associated Press reports West Virginia opened the new year with a better than average safety record as two traffic fatalities occurred from Friday through yesterday. A 10 year old boy, Tommy Tucker, was killed by a brick wall at an abandoned coal mine power station near Oak Hill. In Pocahontas and Pendleton counties a head on crash near Franklin killed Denny Snedegar and critically injured Florence Snedegar as the Propst family sustained injuries. The weekend also saw Clarence Thompson of Painesville Ohio killed in Taylor County and Emmett Bell from Rich Creek Hollow accidental self inflicted death near New Year celebrations.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Tommy Tucker
Oak Hill
U. S. 33
Franklin
Pendleton County
Denny R. Snedegar
Florence
Baltimore
Droop
Pocahontas County
Propst
Moyers
Snedeger
Harrisonburg
Mercer County
Soviet agrarian policy blamed for worst harvest in years
Soviet Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich faces Khrushchev’s censure over a poor harvest blamed on bad weather and leaders who misunderstand agriculture. The premier singles out failures as crop yields slump for the fourth year.
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Vladimir Matskevich
Nikita Khrushchev
Arlene Francis to take Sullivan role in Sweet Love Remembered
Coproducer Martin Gabel announces his wife Arlene Francis will replace the late Margaret Sullivan in the play Sweet Love Remember’d after Sullivan’s death in New Haven. The shift comes as the production continues tryouts in Connecticut amid Broadway buzz.
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Arlene Francis
Margaret Sullivan
Miss Sullivan
New Haven
Conn
Valley Forge
Singapore
South China Sea
Ohio
Nobel Winner Albert Camus Killed in France Crash
Nobel laureate Albert Camus died in a automobile crash in Sens France. He was 47 years old and had won the 1957 Nobel Prize in literature.
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Sens
France
Albert Camus
Science rushes on as plans loom for lunar trips
Sherwood Glutz notes rapid scientific progress and weekend lunar plans while others mull cures for the common cold. He quips about forests, fires, and clever youths not taking a day off to innovate.
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Summen
Eisenhower Expected for Latin America Tour in Feb
President Eisenhower, fresh from a European trip, may visit Buenos Aires Feb 24 or 25 for a two day stay as part of a four nation Latin American tour. Argentine officials announced the potential stop after talks with President Frondizi.
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Asia
Africa
Eisenhower
Diogenes Tabada
Arturo Frondizi
Washington
U. S
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Brazil
Brasilia
Augusta
James C
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Juscelino Kubitschek
International Monetary Fund
Kubitschek
Latin America
Milton Eisenhower
Rep
Armistead Selden Jr
Dala
House
West Virginia Sergeant Shoots Self in Seoul Shower
M. Sgt. Wilmer A. Booth of Orient Hill Greenbrier County W Va apparently shot and killed himself in a shower room in the 1st Cavalry Division area in Seoul. Booth’s body was found December 31 with a .45 caliber pistol nearby and no signs of foul play.
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Korea
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Orient Hill
Greenbrier County
W. Va
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1St Cavalry Division
Castro Death Predicted by Cuban Leader's Ouster Expected
Stanley Ross editor in chief of El Diario on national TV forecast Fidel Castro will be assassinated or overthrown within 30 to 60 days. The claim was aired on a nationwide program and reported from New York.
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Eisenhower
Washington
National Guard
Honduras
New York
Stanley Ross
el Diario
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Settlement Cost 39 Cents Hourly Wage Increase Reached
An informed AP source says Washington steel labor deal includes a 39 cent hourly package increase over 30 months, with work rules shelved for practical purposes. Steelworkers earned about $3.11 hourly under Taft Hartley terms. a three year rising pace had been offered earlier. Committee will study work rules but cannot bind. Agreement runs to June 30 1962 and is expected to raise steel prices.
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Pittsburgh
Associated Press Today
Washington
New York
United Steelworkers Union
Strike cost more than six billion in losses
AP reports a 116 day steel strike from July 15 to November 7 last year cost more than six billion dollars in wage and production losses. Half a million steel workers lost about 1.16 billion in wages and production fell nearly five billion, halting about 87 percent of basic steel making capacity and laying off over 350,000 steel-related workers.
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Pittsburgh
Wyoming Man Kills Himself With Shotgun
William Curtis Cook 52 died by suicide at 8 45 a m at his Baileysville home on Oceana Road He used a .0 gauge shotgun in front of his son Jack 20 who heard the shot Cook recently discharged from Welch hospital after heart problems kept him from work He had worked for Wyoming County Board of Education and the State Road Commission He served as a WWII Army military policeman He was a farmer and church Sunday School teacher Surviving wife Alice Graham Cook daughter Jill Burchette another son W C and two brothers and a sister Funeral arrangements are pending at Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home Pineville.
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RNS
William
Curtis Cook
Oceana Road
Cook
Bud Daniels
Wyoming
Bert Short
Daniels
Jack
Welch
Wyoming County Board of Education
Jill Burchette
W. C
Howard
Mullens
Pierce
Pineville
Opal Shannon
Sun Hill
Robertson and Foglesong
Violent home invasion ends with wife abducted in Crouse
Police said two armed men robbed truck driver C. G. Black and his sons, tied them, and abducted his wife Janet Black 31. She later said she was raped multiple times during the attack near Spencer Mountain. One suspect, Billy Shedd 25, was booked. a posse hunted for an uncle, Robert Case 28, in Gastonia. The family reported the incident occurred at 5 p.m. and the wife was later brought to the police station.
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Billy Shedd
Smyre
Gastonia
Black
Shedd
Robert Case
Ridley
C. G. Black
Mrs. Black
Spencer Mountain
Lowell
Charlotte
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